Thanks, this is very helpful information. Davis's webpage states the list of available third party services is growing for the Weatherlink Live product. Is there any indication or belief within this community that the PWS Weather service will be added?
I like the PWSWeather.com pages and presentation overall, well worth supporting.
However, also sending a feed to CWOP gets your WX data ingested by MADIS; which is sourced by many users like NOAA/NHC/SPC, MESOWest and others, benefiting a larger scientific community.
Your own data provided there may just help save your bacon the next time something like Hurricane Harvey comes knocking.
[I spent almost three days preparing my boat at a Coastal Bend marina, watching 'cane WX online constantly. Left for home at near the last possible hour, got my butt kicked every mile back by Harvey's rainbands. Been through a lot of 'canes, never saw anything like those, although I was exposed on the highway. Then Harvey follows along behind and tracks to within 45 miles E of my inland house, before it reversed course and went back out into the GOM before heading for Houston, East TX, LA and it's last landfall.]
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/wrh_mesowest_faq"Meteorological data from over 2800 automated environmental monitoring stations in the western United States are collected, processed, archived, integrated, and disseminated as part of the MesoWest program.
MesoWest depends upon voluntary access to provisional observations from environmental monitoring stations installed and maintained by federal, state, and local agencies and commercial firms. In many cases, collection and transmission of these observations are facilitated by NWS forecast offices, government laboratories, and universities. MesoWest augments the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) network maintained by the NWS, Federal Aviation Administration, and Department of Defense.
MesoWest increases the coverage of observations in remote locations and helps capture many of the local and mesoscale weather phenomena that impact the public.
The primary goal of MesoWest is to improve timely access to automated observations for NWS forecasters at offices throughout the western United States. In addition, integration of the observations into analyses of surface conditions at high spatial and temporal resolution provides additional tools for nowcasts and forecast verification.
MesoWest observations are being used for many other applications,
including input to operational and research models and research and
education on weather processes in the western United States."